Dr Paul Gillespie is Foreign Policy Editor and a duty editor of The Irish Times. He works in the editor's office of the newspaper as an editorial writer and columnist on international affairs. He has special expertise and interest in European politics and political identities, British-Irish relations, transatlantic relations, Middle East affairs and East Asian affairs. He lectures at the School of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin and is a member of the advisory council of the European Policy Centre, Brussels. He is the author of many articles and book chapters and edited Blair's Britain, England's Europe, Dublin: Institute of European, 2000.
Experts - European politics
Paul Gillespie
Natasza Styczyńska
Dr Natasza Styczyńska is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of European Studies of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland). Her academic interests include party politics, populism, Euroscepticism and European Integration in Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans. She leads JU team in H2020 REGROUP Rebuilding Governance and Resilience out of the Pandemic research project and is a director of studies of Una Europa Joint BA in European Studies at Jagiellonian. Previously she has been engaged in research within two H2020 projects: ‘POPREBEL - Populist rebellion against modernity in 21st-century Eastern Europe: neo-traditionalism and neo-feudalism’ (2019-2022) and ‘EU3D - EU Differentiation, Dominance and Democracy’ (2019-2023). She has been a visiting researcher at University College London, the University of Vienna, and the University of Belgrade, as well as a visiting lecturer at universities across Europe, Asia, North Africa,
and South America.
